Abstract:
Traces the history of tea in India and place of Tocklai
Experimental Station in tea research and development.
Discusses Tocklai's contributions in Information Resources
Management (IRM) from two perspectives; Information
Resources External) - IRE and Information Resources
(Internal) - IRI. Identifies documentary resources received by
Tocklai from other tea growing countries , research institutes
as 'External' resources and those generated within Tocklai as
'Internal', systematically collected , collated, classified and
processed into a number of Bibliographic Databases.
Discusses in brief the products of IRM: TSDB [ Tea Science
Data Base], DTSDB [Documentation in Tea Science Data
Base], TBDB [Tea Books Data Base ], DDTSDB [ Doctoral
Dissertations in Tea Science Data Base], TPDB [Tea Patents Data Base], TStDB [Tea Standards Data Base]. Describes the internal resources generated by Tocklai and how the information is processed into e-commodity. Briefly mentions the initiatives taken in On-Line IRM, INTERNET surfing and lists a few INTERNET resources that are frequently visited by Tocklai scientists.
